Fly-brush for doors



(No Model.)

H. H. BALTZLEY.

FLY BRUSH FOR DOORS.

No. 269,375. Patented Dee.19, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. BAL'IZLEY, OF ASSUMPTION, ILLINOIS.

FLY-BRUSH FOR DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 269,375, dated December 19, 1882.

ApplicationfiledMay 10,1882. (No model.)

thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to devices for keeping flies, &c., from entering houses or rooms when the doors thereto are opened; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan view, of a device constrncted according to my invention.

a represents the door-frame. the door.

ore-presents a brush or fringe-carrier composed of the bars 0 0 connected by the coilspring 0 The bar 0 is secured to the doorframe and connected by spring 0 to bar 0 which is connected to the door near the top of same, as hown. The action of the spring 0 is to keep the bars 0 c in the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and keep the door shut and shut it when opened.

at d represent fringe made of cotton, paper, or any equivalentlight material. It is secured to the bars 0 c and hangs down, as shown in Fig. 1. I preferably make this fringe longest at the door and gradually shorter, as shown.

It is difficult to prevent flies from getting into a room when the door is opened, and my device is especially intended to meet this difficulty. As flies enter a door they usually fly upward, audit will be seen that in opening the door the action of the bars 0 0 will give the fringe a slight motion or throw inward toward the door-opening, and the flies entering will be driven back.

1) represents e is a rod secured to rod 0, andextended vertically upward therefrom for a short distance, and then bent outward and slightly downward in position to be engaged by and brush the topofthe door as the latter is opened, as shown in Fig. 2.

e is a fringe or brush secured and depending from that portion of the rod e which en= gages with the top of the door. I preferably connect the rod 6 to the rod 0 by a clamp, so the rod 0 may be removed at pleasure. The rod 6, being secured to the rod cand provided with fringe e, will brush along the top of the door as it is opened and knock off any flies that may be thereon, and will also drive back any flies that attempt to come in over the door.

Having thus described inyinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In combination with a door, a fringe or fly-brush connected to thejamh and to the top of the door, and automatically swinging into the doorway when the door is opened and swinging out of said doorway when the door is closed, substantially as set forth.

2. A brush-carrier, 0, having its arms cc provided with the fringe 61, and secured respectively to the jamb and the door near the top of the latter, and connected by the coilspring 0 and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, with the brush-carrier 0, having its arms secured to the door and the jamb, of the rod 6, provided with fringe e, secured to one of the arms of spring a, and extended outward and arranged to brush the top ofthe door as the latter is' opened, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY H. BALTZLEY.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN M. CooMs, LEANDER LONG. 

